Jupiter from DP, 25th January

[bird]

David Pretorius sent me a cdrom with some raw jupiter data that he purchased on the black market... err... I mean "took with his own scope".. :-)

Having nothing better to do while waiting for a break in the weather I thought I would process it for him, so here is it.

DP you'll have to chip in with the details? I stacked about 300 frames each in RGB, deconvolved in Astra Image using ME.

You can see the GRS just rising on the right hand edge of the planet.

regards, Bird

[ving]

well done bavo... dird?

oh well.... great pic guys :)

[davidpretorius]

thanks bird, legend!!

these were 120 second runs at 5fps in raw mode for the toucam. Seeing was very nice.

For my limited experience, i rated it 8 or 9/10, Bird, how would you have gauged it???

ice, rocket and asimov also have copies of the cd's so I can't wait for their processing efforts.

I had to share the great seeing conditions.

As bird mentioned to me via pm, the collimation and focus could do with a touch up. I am waiting on baree's impression of the orions hand held focusser, and it it works well, i will make one or buy one.

[asimov]

The disc rocked up today mate. I doubt weather I'll do such a good job as bird on it but I'll give it a shot.

[bird]

The features on the disk were very steady, so the seeing might possibly have been up around 8/10 or better. However there might also have been some jetstream or upper-air turbulence that results in a slightly fuzzy image, so that would detract from the seeing a bit.

regards, Bird

[davidpretorius]

do not understate your processing capabilities! mr underestimov!

Bird and Mike and I tend to process one way, you and rob different. I have always been keen to see how the exact same data would turn out.

looking forward to it!

[davidpretorius]

or focus or collimation!

[iceman]

Very nice processing Bird, nice capturing Davo! Huge image scale! Anthony did you upscale it?

[asimov]

This is the first time I've had anything to do with raw frames..could be interesting.

[bird]

oops, yes, it's 1.3x resampled in registax. I meant to scale it back down again when I was done but forgot... P-)

Bird

[davidpretorius]

it has been converted back to colour frames, so you should be fine. you have the red / green / blue there to process individually if you want and then combine in astral image if need be

[Robert_T]

Hey DP, great image. I'm just back from a couple days travelling. Just PM'd you my postal address.... looking forward to seeing how much damage I can do with this little gem of an avi :P

[bird]

waiting for Jupiter, here's another version, probably a bit better than the first one...

Bird

[iceman]

Much better!

Very nice Anthony.

[asimov]

Good stuff Bird!!

[Hitchhiker]

Great stuff, bird & DP. DP, can you send some of that seeing up here? ;)